Are we more productive now? Analyzing change tasks to assess productivity trends during software evolution

ENASE 2009 - 4th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 161-176

  Benestad, Hans Christian ^a   Anda, Bente ^a   Arisholm, Erik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHANGE MANAGEMENT; CHANGE TASKS; COMMERCIAL SOFTWARE; SELF-ASSESSMENT; SOFTWARE EVOLUTION;

MANAGEMENT; PRODUCTIVITY; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION;

EID: 74549178674     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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